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State/Local The Battalion Monday, Nov. 14, 1988 Page 3 Super collider should create new technology 'Dll Student protest Members of Students Against Apartheid marc h across campus I'riday afternoon to protest A&M System investments in companies that con duct business in South Africa, f Fountain to College Station City H Photo by Kathy Haveman he group marched from Rudder all. DALLAS (AP) — Scientists be lieve many technologies will spin off from the multibillion dollar super conducting “super collider,” includ ing benefits in medical diagnosis and in the battle against fruit flies. “We have to know how matter works in order to make progress in understanding how everything else works,” Austin Gleeson, chairman of the physics department at the Uni versity of Texas, said. “If we don’t keep making progress on those fron tiers, knowledge stops.” If the super collider receives fed eral funding and is built in Ellis County some 30 miles south of Dal las, thousands of jobs will be created. But the project already has yielded several benefits, including better ways to kill fruit flies and to detect human illnesses. Scientists in volved in the groundwork for the project say they expect the super col lider will pave the way for unheard- of marvels. “Roll your thoughts back about 100 years,” Texas A&M physicist Peter McIntyre said. “The progress of science and technology that has arris County jail consultant, investor linked HOUSTON (AP) — A consultant was hired to evaluate muldmil- lion-dollar proposals for a new Har iris County jail had business connec tions with a wealthy backer of the ||irm that eventually won the jail con- gract. I The connections between the con sultant Fayez Sarofim, a Houston noney manager, and the contracted irm, Facilities Development Group, eemed to be a surprise to the people ho made the final contract deci- Two commissioners, the county attorney and county treasurer all kaid the connection between the con- Isultant Brown & Root USA Inc. and Sarofim, a key investor in FDG, should have been discussed publicly beforehand. Three Harris County commis sioners, however, told the Houston Post they were not aware of those business ties before awarding the jail bid to Facilities Development Group. County Attorney Mike Driscoll said, “If there’s no direct conflict, there’s the appearance of conflict. When we’re relying on a company to evaluate, I think an involvement of this sort is close enough that it needs to be disclosed.” Two other commissioners said the connection between Sarofim and Brown & Root was too distant to be a conflict of interest, even though Sa- rofim’s investment firm handles mil lions of dollars in pension invest ments for Brown & Root and its parent company, the Halliburton Co. Managers for FDG also bristled at any suggestion of conflict of interest in the jail selection process. Com pany officials say Sarofim is a passive investor and that they, too, never knew of any connection with Brown & Root. Richard Knight, FDG’s chairman, said, “You’re telling me something — I never knew that.” Polarized reaction to questions about Sarofim’s firm and Brown & Root may reflect the lengthy, bitter controversy that has accompanied FDG’s proposal to convert a 60-year- old warehouse on the banks of Buf falo Bayou into a 4,200-inmate jail. Deadlocked early this year in at tempts to choose among the FDG proposal and two others, the Com missioners Court hired Brown & Root to provide an outside view of the jail bids. Brown & Root reported that a $76 million proposal submitted by FDG was, among other things, the most cost-effective of the three. In May, the commissioners gave FDG the jail project. Sarofim’s investment firm, Fayez Sarofim & Co., is a limited partner in the City Partnership, which owns FDG. Sarofim’s firm is one of several money managers that each handle tens of millions of dollars in pension funds for Brown & Root and its par ent firm, the Halliburton Co. Sarofim also is married to Louisa Stude Sarofim, an adopted daughter of Herman Brown, one of the leg endary founders of Brown & Root. 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Join us and handcraft your Christmas gifts this year ! $24 In Cooperation with BI&D BryanCommunkDEduc^ defined the fabric of our civilization has been paced by a quest for under standing the basic building blocks of matter. “The casual sequence of events that leads from a high-brow theorist through the point of an inventor who makes a better mousetrap is driven on the front end by the un derstanding of the fundamental things,” he said. The construction alone will re quire development of hundreds of technologies that can be applied to other fields, K.W. Chen, director for accelerator science and technology at the University of Texas at Arling ton, said. Just as the moon missions brought such seemingly unrelated scientific discoveries as non-stick cooking sur faces and heart pacemakers, McIn tyre said the first work on the super conductor at the Texas Accelerator Center near Houston already has yielded technologies that seem to have little connection to quarks and protons. McIntyre .suggests that by the time the super collider is operating, per haps 16 years from now, the annual sales from spinoff technology ought to be in the billions of dollars. Scientists at the center, a collabo rative effort of nine universities, al ready have: • Developed supermagnets used in a medical technique called magne tic resonance imaging, which gives physicians “a 3-D road map of your insides,” McIntyre said. • Fabricated a small X-ray device that will quickly and safely kill fruit flies. The device could end quaran tines that have cost growers millions of dollars and could be used to kill bacteria on chickens, oysters and shrimp. The super collider itself will be a major invention: a super-powerful microscope through which some of the universe’s smallest elements can be seen. ^ A&M Steakhousel Delivers ra^S/846-5273 FREE WINDSHIELD REPLACEMENT Bring yuor Insurance claims to us and we will pay your deductible up to $50.00. AAA AUTO GLASS 2111 S. 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